Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-18 Thread Tj Hariharan
O never mind, it still happens, though obviously more intermittently, since I didn't notice anything odd for almost an entire day. A few more things this time though: a. It IS intermittent, there seems to be very little pattern to this, except that it seems to be more likely to happen when/if I am

Re: wpi fatal firmware error with country de

2013-08-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
... so, unless you have a million wpi NICs and you can control purchasing of further hardware from intel, I doubt they're going to care about a very old, EOL NIC. Sorry! -adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2

2013-08-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
I finally tried again to track down that booting problem with FreeBSD via Super Grub Disk with kfreebsd. I also tried, unsuccessfully, the menu choice "Detect any operating system". That failed for failure to find commands "freebsd" and "frebsd-loadenv". In the latter command, "frebsd-loadenv"

Re: wpi fatal firmware error with country de

2013-08-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 19/08/2013 00:13, Adrian Chadd wrote: > That's really odd. But then, it's a firmware driven NIC, who knows what > kind of weird crap is going on under the hood. Yes, it's a black box. So how do I get in contact with intel support and dump that in their laps? > Maybe you could experiment by loo

Re: wpi fatal firmware error with country de

2013-08-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
That's really odd. But then, it's a firmware driven NIC, who knows what kind of weird crap is going on under the hood. Maybe you could experiment by looking at what changing the regulatory domain does when programming the firmware and see if it's a channel thing, a regulatory domain thing or somet

Re: Update to 9.2-PRERELEASE, what is this?

2013-08-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hah! I'm not tired of it. I like the layout; I'd like to see an better ascii beastie logo (one that uses block characters if the terminal supports it) to display something pretty. But I do like the centred layout of the boot menu. -adrian ___ freebsd-

Re: wpi fatal firmware error with country de

2013-08-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 18/08/2013 21:29, Adrian Chadd wrote: > ... hm, but if you do destroy, then re-create manually, does it work? > (Versus using service) With country US, yes. Anything else, no. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-p

Re: Update to 9.2-PRERELEASE, what is this?

2013-08-18 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, David Demelier wrote: Hi, After updating to r25, I have a strange boot loader, see: http://files.malikania.fr/DSC_0223.jpg What's that? Is this a joke? Yes, sort of. After you're tired of it, override it in /boot/loader.conf: loader_logo="orb" A PR should probab

Re: wpi fatal firmware error with country de

2013-08-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
... hm, but if you do destroy, then re-create manually, does it work? (Versus using service) -adrian On 18 August 2013 10:14, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > My system was built yesterday. I just figured I'm not using the entire > frequency range available in Europe. This is a potential problem whe

Re: 9.2-RC2 Now Available

2013-08-18 Thread Rick Macklem
George Mitchell wrote: > On 08/16/13 22:17, Glen Barber wrote: > > The second release candidate builds of the 9.2-RELEASE release > > cycle > > are now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, > > powerpc, > > powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures. > > [...] > > Glen > > > Has any pro

Re: 9.2-RC2 Now Available

2013-08-18 Thread George Mitchell
On 08/16/13 22:17, Glen Barber wrote: The second release candidate builds of the 9.2-RELEASE release cycle are now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures. [...] Glen Has any progress been made on diagnosing this NFS deadlock? http:

wpi fatal firmware error with country de

2013-08-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
My system was built yesterday. I just figured I'm not using the entire frequency range available in Europe. This is a potential problem when AP frequencies are not under my control. FreeBSD mobileKamikaze.norad 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #0 r254418: Fri Aug 16 22:15:55 CEST 2013 r

Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
good to know! -adrian On 18 August 2013 05:19, Tj Hariharan wrote: > Ok so, at the time I was using r254246. Just this afternoon, I realised > there were quite a few commits after that. I am now on r25 and > everything seems to be working fine, i.e. no more wlan0 dying randomly. > I hav

Re: System doesn't dump

2013-08-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 30/05/2013 15:02, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:41:38 am Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> I have a number of actions that reliably panic the system, such as >> performing shutdown -p (yes I'm booting into an inconsistent file >> system every time). Both with my notebook and my work

Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-18 Thread Tj Hariharan
Ok so, at the time I was using r254246. Just this afternoon, I realised there were quite a few commits after that. I am now on r25 and everything seems to be working fine, i.e. no more wlan0 dying randomly. I have no idea what is causing this, though. (the r254246 was from installing from a dow

Re: System doesn't dump

2013-08-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
After a long time I got my system to make all the right noises (I think), still without it actually dumping, though. On 29/05/2013 09:11, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 08:41:38AM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> I have a number of actions that reliably panic the system, such as

Re: stopping amd causes a freeze

2013-08-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 28/07/2013 08:24, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:33:18AM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> On 26/07/2013 19:10, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> On 25/07/2013 12:00, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:56:59AM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 22/07/

Re: Update to 9.2-PRERELEASE, what is this?

2013-08-18 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:07:09PM +0200, David Demelier wrote: > Hi, > > After updating to r25, I have a strange boot loader, see: > > http://files.malikania.fr/DSC_0223.jpg > > What's that? Is this a joke? http://modcult.org/read/2008/2/20/nakatomi-socrates-bsd-9-2 __

Update to 9.2-PRERELEASE, what is this?

2013-08-18 Thread David Demelier
Hi, After updating to r25, I have a strange boot loader, see: http://files.malikania.fr/DSC_0223.jpg What's that? Is this a joke? Cheers, ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsub